On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Michael Merickel <[email protected]> wrote:
> uday, I think you'll want to just prefix your values, then you can iterate
> over the POST and turn it into a dictionary:
> <input name="profile-name"/>
> <input name="profile-email"/>
> profile = {}
> for k in request.POST.keys():
>     if k.startswith('profile-'):
>         profile[k[len('profile-'):]] = request.POST.get(k)
> name = profile.get('name', 'Bob')

Or use a form library. FormAlchemy allow to use a prefix and I guess
that deform and other libraries have way to do that too.
If you need this kind of structure that mean that you want to build
complex forms. Build html forms and validation stuff by hand is not
really fun and not very efficient.

My 2c.

>
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Chris McDonough <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 13:27 -0500, Chris McDonough wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 12:21 -0600, Michael Merickel wrote:
>> > > The "key[subkey]" syntax is not supported in WebOb (I think).
>> >
>> > Yeah, sorry.  I meant that when you do this in a form:
>> >
>> > <input type="text" name="foo"></input>
>> > <input type="text" name="foo"></input>
>> >
>> > You can do in a view:
>> >
>> > request.getall('foo')
>>
>> Sorry, rather:
>>
>> request.POST.getall('foo')
>>
>> >
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Chris McDonough <[email protected]>
>> > > wrote:
>> > >         On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 09:28 -0800, Mengu wrote:
>> > >         > actually, pylons had this. it was
>> > >         request.params.getall('param') but
>> > >         > pyramid does not support this.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >         It does, actually.  It's a WebOb feature (both Pyramid and
>> > >         Pylons use
>> > >         WebOb).
>> > >
>> > >         - C
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >         >
>> > >         > On Nov 14, 6:12 pm, Gael Pasgrimaud <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > >         > > Hi,
>> > >         > >
>> > >         > > Are you coming from php ? :)
>> > >         > >
>> > >         > > WebOb does not handle arrays/hashes and I don't think that
>> > >         this is in
>> > >         > > the current roadmap.
>> > >         > >
>> > >         > >
>> > >         > >
>> > >         > >
>> > >         > >
>> > >         > >
>> > >         > >
>> > >         > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:52 AM, uday <[email protected]>
>> > >         wrote:
>> > >         > > > Hi  all,
>> > >         > >
>> > >         > > > I think it is more helpful if we can make form fields
>> > >         processing more
>> > >         > > > convenient which can reduce verbosity in views.
>> > >         > >
>> > >         > > > for example assume profile model/table has fields
>> > >         username and
>> > >         > > > password
>> > >         > > > in my form i write like    <input type='text'
>> > >         > > > name='profile[username']><input type='password'
>> > >         > > > name='profile[password]'>
>> > >         > >
>> > >         > > > so when this form is submitted, it would be cool if I
>> > >         can just do
>> > >         > > > like: request.POST['profile'] which gives me a dict of
>> > >         names and
>> > >         > > > values specific to that model/table whatever
>> > >         > > > so if I do request.POST['profile'] = {'username': value
>> > >         entered by
>> > >         > > > user, 'password': value entered by user}
>> > >         > >
>> > >         > > > is this feature already there? or can it be achieved in
>> > >         any other way?
>> > >         > > > is it related to webob or pyramid?
>> > >         > > > I am ready to work on this to make it available in
>> > >         pyramid, so please
>> > >         > > > give me pointers to work on this.
>> > >         > >
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